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Jun 3, 2011
06/11
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It was writer Arthur C. Clarke who said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Ankal the witch is a story about a good witch and a bad witch. It takes place mostly in the present and pits our modern magic against the eye of newt tongue of frog kind. I took every opportunity in this story to poke fun at all the stuff we take too seriously. I expect no one will have any trouble with the wordplay. Ten years from now it will be as distant as Beowulf. The...
Topics: Ankal, witchcraft, Stevniak, Zarpi, magic, humor, witches, wizards, fantasy, Fright&Barrow,...
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Sep 17, 2007
09/07
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The tale of a bird half parrot and half penguin who is considered a living god by some and a Hollywood star by others. With his friends Juanita and Ruffa the dog he sails in an ancient Egyptian craft from an island in the Antarctic up to the large penguin colony at Punta Tombo, Argentina and is discovered by a movie company shooting yet another penguin movie. Copyright 2007 by Roy Trumbull I was into the third or fourth chapter of this story and I still had no satisfactory name for my hero. I'd...
Topics: parrot, penguin, Sethites, Punta Tombo, Antarctic, volcano, Bird Island, children's stories, audio...
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Feb 7, 2013
02/13
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Joaquin Miller (1837 - 1913) spent 5 years with the Indian tribes whose base was in the forests out from the base of Mt. Shasta in northern California. The Modocs, Pit River Indians, Klamats, and Shastas were driven to near extinction by the influx of whites in search of gold. The rivers were polluted by placer mining and the salmon came no more. The trout died. Game was much more easily hunted with rifles than with bows and arrows. While this story has the potential to be a real downer,...
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Topics: Modoc Indians,gun fights, massacres, Indians, Mt Shasta, Joaquin Miller, gold
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Nov 19, 2012
11/12
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Joaquin Miller (1837-1913) was in the west when it was truly wild. Bears were plentiful and he recounts his many adventures with them.
Topics: Joaquin Miller, bears, adventures, wild west, California, Oregon, Mt. Shasta
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Jul 3, 2018
07/18
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Book from Project Gutenberg: The Marvelous Land Of Oz
Topics: Fantasy, Children's Literature, Women soldiers -- Juvenile fiction, Youth -- Conduct of life --...
Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17426
After a fairly brief and appropriately poetically abstract introduction, Roy Trumbull plays Bob Dylan’s fifth studio album “Bringing It All Back Home,” in its entirety. This program was recorded on April 17, 1965, just a month after the LP had been released on Columbia Records. Long recognized as the album in which Dylan embraced rock and roll and turned from writing political protest songs to those more personal or allegorical in nature, “Bringing It All Back Home” featured one side...
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Folk Music, Music
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Oct 23, 2013
10/13
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Cory Doctorow
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This is the audiobook edition of my self-published science fiction short story collection, With a Little Help . I tapped many voice actor friends ( Neil Gaiman , Mur Lafferty , Wil Wheaton , Leo Laporte , Emily Hurson , Patrick Nielsen Hayden , Hugh AD Spencer , Mary Robinette Kowal , JC Hutchins , Roy Trumbull , Jonathan Coulton , Spider Robinson , Jesse Brown , and Russell Galen ) to record the stories in this volume, and their recordings were mastered by John Taylor Williams, who also...
Topics: with a little help, audiobook, cory doctorow, science fiction, self publishing
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Oct 23, 2013
10/13
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Cory Doctorow
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These are the MP3s for the audiobook edition of my short story collection, With a Little Help . I tapped many voice actor friends ( Neil Gaiman , Mur Lafferty , Wil Wheaton , Leo Laporte , Emily Hurson , Patrick Nielsen Hayden , Hugh AD Spencer , Mary Robinette Kowal , JC Hutchins , Roy Trumbull , Jonathan Coulton , Spider Robinson , Jesse Brown , and Russell Galen ) to record the stories in this volume, and their recordings were mastered by John Taylor Williams, who also masters my podcast....
Topics: with a little help, audiobook, cory doctorow, science fiction, self publishing
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Oct 23, 2013
10/13
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Cory Doctorow
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This is the audiobook edition of my self-published science fiction short story collection, With a Little Help . I tapped many voice actor friends ( Neil Gaiman , Mur Lafferty , Wil Wheaton , Leo Laporte , Emily Hurson , Patrick Nielsen Hayden , Hugh AD Spencer , Mary Robinette Kowal , JC Hutchins , Roy Trumbull , Jonathan Coulton , Spider Robinson , Jesse Brown , and Russell Galen ) to record the stories in this volume, and their recordings were mastered by John Taylor Williams, who also...
Topics: with a little help, audiobook, cory doctorow, science fiction, self publishing
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Dec 7, 2010
12/10
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Cory Doctorow
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This is the audiobook edition of my self-published science fiction short story collection, With a Little Help . I tapped many voice actor friends ( Neil Gaiman , Mur Lafferty , Wil Wheaton , Leo Laporte , Emily Hurson , Patrick Nielsen Hayden , Hugh AD Spencer , Mary Robinette Kowal , JC Hutchins , Roy Trumbull , Jonathan Coulton , Spider Robinson , Jesse Brown , and Russell Galen ) to record the stories in this volume, and their recordings were mastered by John Taylor Williams, who also...
Topics: with a little help, audiobook, cory doctorow, science fiction, self publishing
Roy Trumbull presents the first of four programs dedicated to Leadbelly’s last recording sessions, in which the singer and musician performs many of the songs he had learned or written during his life. Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, was born to a poor African American family sometime in the waning years of the 19h century, (ca. 1888). A large, strong man with a booming voice, and an ability to play the 12 string guitar, Leadbelly spent much of his early life, working hard,...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, Folk Music, Leadbelly
Rachel shares her sock knitting secrets, and she's finally finished with her Log Cabin Noro blanket! Natalie obsesses over two very large bumps of red wool. Oh dear! Rachel's Chat on the Fine Art of Knitting Socks Top downsources for good design: Cookie A's Sock Innovation and Nancy Bush's Knitting Vintage Socks, Folk Socks, Knitting on the RoadToe up short row toes and heels Judy's Magic Cast on for toe up socks Sources for good design: Wendy D. Johnson and Chrissy Gardiner Knitty article on...
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Sep 3, 2008
09/08
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This is an orientation lecture for those who've just moved to a state where the residents all have a stake in their exploitation and mistreatment and are convinced that it's a good idea to get the short end of the stick in perpetuity.
Topics: kickme, politics, kickme states, humor, satire, audio books, Roy Trumbull
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Sep 5, 2008
09/08
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Roy Trumbull
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The Meanness and Rationalization Party is vetting Vice-Presidential candidates. Medea is on the list even though she's had more than her share of bad press. How many votes can you get after you kill your children, poison your exes trophy bride, turn the kings murdered corpse into an entrée, and later attempt to poison your stepson?
Topics: Medea, vetting, politics, satire, campaign, vice president, audio book, Roy Trumbull
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Sep 20, 2008
09/08
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Roy Trumbull
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A young man is dead and his friends meet to attempt to decode a message found in his effects.
Topics: codes, ciphesr, computers, mystery, audio book, Roy Trumbull
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May 23, 2009
05/09
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Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull - Creative Commons Copyright 2009 Some rights reserved. Detective Abe Howard and his AI computer Maija are looking for a killer. Members of high society are slimming down by getting massaged. Their fat is being removed via the hungry hands of aliens. The story is set 50+ years into the future. The Colorado River is more like a stream. The population in So. Ca is greatly reduced. The number of casinos in Vegas was reduced in a high stakes poker game. There is no money...
Topics: Fat Chance, Roy Trumbull, fat eaters, detective, Maija, geek lit, drone attack, Las Vegas, Colorado...
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Nov 6, 2009
11/09
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Roy Trumbull
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I think I had my first golf clubs when I was three. My dad, Barney Trumbull, was a dedicated golfer but I lacked the knack. That didn't keep me from playing with him on every golf course in Northern California. The Rattlesnake Hills Club is a thinly disguised real club. It combines the worst features of a number of courses I've been on. We bring back Joey, inventor of the P-Ball, who once again makes a game changing invention. Using a magic metal and his imagination, Joey fashions the perfect...
Topics: gahlumponium, magic, golf, imagination, Joey, Roy Trumbull, audio book, Rattlesnake Hills
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Apr 4, 2009
04/09
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Joey visits an MRI machine and learns something about how it images soft tissue. Joey's Uncle Walter has vanished and in his uncles lab he finds something like a home brew MRI machine but it's much different. He figures out it's a portal but to where?
Topics: Joey, MRI, Sci-Fi, fantasy, audio book, Roy Trumbull
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Oct 5, 2008
10/08
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A business scheme based upon truth brings riches to those employing it. Imagine a can of high fructose corn syrup cola with a detailed list of all the medical ills drinking it will cause.
Topics: cola, HFCS, high fructose corn syrup, fiction, audio book, death rockers, Roy Trumbull
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Aug 14, 2012
08/12
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Roy Trumbull
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The city kids miss a lot that country kids grow up knowing. Like getting a hen to lay a high density hard drive.
Topics: gallus gallus, sci-fi, hard drive
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Feb 25, 2010
02/10
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Roy Trumbull
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One would think that the way an FM station makes money is by selling commercials. For decades the owners have made money by selling the station to a bigger fool. Now the biggest fools own all the stations. This story goes back to the early 1960s and how it all began.
Topics: FM radio, trade-outs, due bills, radio schools, limited partnerships, adult content
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Oct 29, 2006
10/06
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Roy Trumbull
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A twisted fairy tale that introduces one to the fictions of Wall Street and the legal fictions that make them possible.
Topics: humor, Jack and the beanstock, legal fictions, Wall Street, crooks in Congress, Roy Trumbull,...
Source: www.storyspieler.com
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Jan 24, 2009
01/09
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Roy Trumbull
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Joey falls asleep and finds himself on a rail car in 1862 with a young Thomas Edison while the Civil War rages. Because Detroit is adjacent to Canada it was a major station on the Underground Railroad and the crossing point for fugitive slaves. I added mention in the story of the Unitarian minister Thomas Starr King. He was responsible for keeping California from supporting the confederates. For 22 years I worked one block away from his crypt at his church. I don't recall hearing about him in...
Topics: Joey, Edison, adventure, fiction, historical, Civil War, slavery, Starr King, underground railroad
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Sep 16, 2008
09/08
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Roy Trumbull
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copyright 2008 by Roy Trumbull A young lady is proud of the fact she was named Miss Moose Meat at a beauty contest in Alaska. In fact she never fails to mention the fact, much to the chagrin of her brother. It acts as a boy friend screening process. If a guy is still interested after he hears the tale, then maybe he's the one.
Topics: Alaska, moose, satire, love, beauty contest, love, college, Roy Trumbull
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Jul 27, 2012
07/12
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Roy Trumbull
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These programs are designed to be a half hour in length and are composed of existing short story files with added information and introductory material. The exception is the Modoc program each of which consists of from 2 to 3 chapters of a book and they run longer. These programs were created for non-commercial internet radio stations.
Topics: Storyspieler, Roy Trumbull, short stories, half hour
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May 25, 2008
05/08
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Roy Trumbull
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A teenager invents a golf ball that can't be lost.
Topics: golf, fantasy, children's stories, audio books, teenagers, Roy Trumbull
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Nov 12, 2007
11/07
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Roy Trumbull
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The country is experiencing an epidemic of Kidsheimers in which adults at work turn into children. It is very hush hush. Even the President has it. It is the root cause behind subprime mortgages. When I finished this story in the fall of 2007 I thought everyone could see the coming train wreck. As we've learned since, it was invisible to the Fed, Congress, Wall Street and a lot of banks who should have known better.
Topics: Kidsheimers,humor,satire,whales,disasters, subprime mortgages, investments, Roy Trumbull
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Sep 9, 2006
09/06
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Roy Trumbull
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I wrote this after seeing one too many ads aimed directly at the rubes to get them to request script for expensive meds.
Topics: drugs, medicine, health care, humor, Roy Trumbull
Source: www.storyspieler.com
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Sep 29, 2006
09/06
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Roy Trumbull
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Having gotten those two or three page notices from almost every business or service I deal with, the absurdity of it got to me and this was the result.
Topics: privacy notice, satire, government, Roy Trumbull
Source: www.storyspieler.com
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Oct 5, 2006
10/06
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The cell phone has become the default object of religious devotion in our times. Are there cell phones in heaven? Brother Wooley of the "Church of the Cell Phone" answers your questions.
Topics: cell phone, church, religion, humor, Roy Trumbull
Source: www.storyspieler.com
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Aug 26, 2006
08/06
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Roy Trumbull
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Aphorisms to go. Impress your friends and co-workers with all the wisdom of the ancients and moderns.
Topics: aphorisms, wise sayings, SASP, Roy Trumbull
Source: www.storyspieler.com
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Sep 27, 2006
09/06
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Roy Trumbull
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This forecast is based upon existing trends and the certainty that lobbyists will keep anything useful from ever coming out of Washington, D.C..
Topics: weather, global warming, humor, Roy Trumbull
Source: www.storyspieler.com
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Oct 26, 2006
10/06
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Roy Trumbull
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These are some notes on the differences between the Jewish bible and the Christian "Old Testament". The order of the books is different. The names of the books are different. The leading names within the stories are different. The translation problems are considerable. What the bible says or may not say remains problematic.
Topics: bible, Christian, Jewish, translation, Roy Trumbull
Source: www.storyspieler.com
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Apr 4, 2010
04/10
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A few years before James M. Barrie wrote the play that would make him famous, he wrote a short story of just four chapters in which he introduced Peter Pan. This Peter was a bit closer to the Pan of mythology and, in fact, he played the Pan pipes for fairy dances. The Peter in the play will be different but an amazing number of themes and settings will go from this short story into the play. Kensington Gardens is a park near Kensington Palace and is one of the Royal Parks.
Topics: Peter Pan, Kensington Gardens, children's stories, fairies, James M. Barrie, Roy Trumbull, audio...
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Jul 1, 2008
07/08
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Roy Trumbull
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A collection of stories first published in 1908 by Annie Trumbull Slosson. They were first told by a 13 year old girl in a southern village who had an amazing talent for making powerful points with her simple stories. Ms. Slosson took them down with attention to the young ladies' dialect. (The author was my distant cousin.) The text for this book is available at www.gutenberg.org. Search author for Slosson.
Topics: parables, allegories, folk-lore, stories, audio book, dialect, American south, Annie Trumbull...
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Dec 15, 2009
12/09
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Roy Trumbull
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These American Indian Tales were collected and edited by Cornelius Mathews and first published in 1869. The narrator is Roy Trumbull. The text is available at www.gutenberg.org.
Topics: American Indian, Indian, folklore, fairy tales, children's stories, audio book
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Sep 18, 2006
09/06
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Roy Trumbull
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To save you some time I have created a political ad that pretty much covers the muck you'll hear over the next few months.
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Topics: political, lies, ads, campaigns, smear tactics, Roy Trumbull
Source: www.storyspieler.com
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Dec 28, 2008
12/08
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"Edison, His Life and Inventions" by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin Published in 1929. Abridged and read by Roy Trumbull. Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931) The complete text is available at www.gutenberg.org. The story of the man who invented over 1000 things including the dual well kitchen sink, wax paper, the quadraplex telegraph, the carbon transmitter and circuitry that made the telephone practical, the phonograph, movies, the first efficient power generator and the...
Topics: Edison, inventor, inventions, patents, light bulb, telegraph, chemistry, electricity, movies,...
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Oct 10, 2009
10/09
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These stories were selected from those collected and edited by Joseph Jacobs. Reading these stories gave me a chance to regress to the accent I heard as a child in the Outer Mission District of San Francisco. Those parts of the stories written in dialect use yez for you and axe for ask and I don't recall hearing that in San Francisco. Of the Celts, the Irish were the ones who truly savored stories. And they would take a tale from the middle east or Germany and make it Irish. The text for these...
Topics: Celtic, Fairy Tales, children's stories
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Oct 13, 2009
10/09
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This story was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in June 1999 and later appeared in Year's Best Science Fiction 5 - HarperPrism David G. Hartwell, editor. The story contains language that may be considered obscene. A technology is developed to supplant drug treatment of concentration disorders and to level out mood spikes and disruptive behavior. A chip is implanted in the brain that takes over body maintenance and preserves a semblance of social graces when the subject's attention...
Topics: brain implant, therapy, mood disorders, vegetables, Doctorow, Sci-Fi, switched off, zero function
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May 21, 2011
05/11
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Years after the Xenobots had been vanquished and their home planet destroyed, the human-Ahmanyan alliance discovered, to its dismay, that the Second Xenobot War was not, in fact, truly over. The Xenobot's great weapon that had worked so efficiently in the long ago War of the First Races continued to run on its own, but like so much of the Xenobot's technology, it was wearing out. A sudden collapse of this technology could bring about a catastrophe of unprecedented, perhaps galaxy-wide...
Topics: Starman, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Xenobots, Tharsos, First Races
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Feb 29, 2008
02/08
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Indian Old-Man Stories collected by Frank Bird Linderman A perfect deity (Manitou) is always a problem because the world isn't perfect. The Indians solved that problem by attributing the creation of the world and all its creatures to Old-Man. Old-Man (also called Napa) was full of mischief, he told lies, he got into trouble, and finally became such a problem that Manitou built a lodge for him and told him to stay in it. In these stories, War Eagle, the medicine man, tells his grandchildren why...
Topics: Indians, Indian Old-Man Stories, folklore, American Indian, Linderman, audio book, Indian Why...
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Jan 12, 2008
01/08
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These are classic stories collected by William Elliot Griffis. The text is available at www.gutenberg.org .Search author for Griffis.
Topics: Wales, Welsh, Fairy tales, fairies, folklore, Griffis
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Apr 18, 2007
04/07
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Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X by Victor Appleton. Victor Appleton was a house name owned by the publisher. Several authors actually wrote the Tom Swift stories. The bulk of the stories were completed by 1941. This story is from a second group and was published in 1961. The Cold War is very much evident in the plot. The most obvious anachronism is that throughout the story telephones are on walls or desks but never in pockets. Tom cranks out a steady stream of high-tech inventions that...
Topics: Tom Swift, Planet X, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
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Oct 13, 2007
10/07
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The human-Ahmanyan alliance is the strongest it has ever been, and their implacable enemies, the ruthless Xenobots, are on the defensive, cornered in their own star system. Though the alliance is confident of victory, the cornered enemy is the most formidable and terrifying. The Xenobots still have one phenomenal weapon that can still bring them victory. The three Starmen David "Zip" Foster, Mark Seaton, and Joe Taylor are asked to go secretly to the very home planet of the Xenobots...
Topics: Starmen, Xenobots, Ahmanya, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, audio book
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Jul 28, 2008
07/08
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Imagine a super baby raised in Ontario by an adoptive Jewish family. Copyright Cory Doctorow. Some rights reserved under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license. This story appears in the collection A PLACE SO FOREIGN AND EIGHT MORE, published in 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows press. The story contains some swear words. The story text is posted at www.gutenberg.org .
Topics: Super Man, Cory Doctorow, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, super heros, Jewish mothers, audio books
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Sep 2, 2008
09/08
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How many extra-terrestrials do you get at your yard sales or see at the Salvation Army Thrift shop looking for cowboy and Indian gear? Copyright Cory Doctorow. Some rights reserved under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license. This story appears in the collection A PLACE SO FOREIGN AND EIGHT MORE, published in 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows press. The story contains some swear words. The story text is posted at www.gutenberg.org .
Topics: crap, rummage, sci-fi, audio books, Cory Doctorow
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Mar 12, 2009
03/09
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A beautiful girl, a thug, a narcotics kingpin, a priceless necklace, and master jewel thief Anson Drake play out their cards on the planet Thizar. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org.
Topics: Sci-FI, jewels, Anson Drake, Randall Garrett, audio book, Science Fiction
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Sep 29, 2008
09/08
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An alien cop sets a trap for an escaped prisoner by building a tour of the Solar System ride at Disneyland. This story first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1959. Ticket prices of $2 are spoken of as high. They were. At the time most people earned $1/hr. The name Bonestell is mentioned. That would be Chesley Bonestell who illustrated the 1949 book "Conquest of Space". Many teenage boys who read that book went on to be the scientists in the space program. He designed...
Topics: sci-fi, science fiction, aliens, Disneyland, solar system, space cops, monsters, audio book
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Feb 20, 2007
02/07
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George Derby was an early American humorist. Mark Twain was a fan. George often wrote using the name John Phoenix. If you fear the dentist, this tale of Mr. Tushmaker's amazing machine for extracting teeth should set you to screaming.
Topics: Tushmaker, George Derby, John Phoenix, humor, tall tales
